Kitzhaber, a former emergency room doctor, was driving along Southwest 13th Avenue on Monday evening when he spotted someone appearing to administer CPR. The woman "apparently had just taken some heroin," Kitzhaber said.

"She actually had suffered respiratory arrest," he said. "She was unconscious. She was very blue. She clearly hadn’t been breathing. I just secured her airway and breathed for her."

Kitzhaber's team used a medical kit from the back of his car to help the woman get oxygenated. It wasn't his personal medical kit from his doctor days, Kitzhaber noted, but a taxpayer-funded kit that travels with him.